‘It’s Always Sunny Philalphia’ creator Rob McElhenney may thk he’s exposg hypocrisy by makg the ultranservative Mac gay, but he’s perpetuatg a trope that absolv the straight muny of rponsibily for homophobia, says Louis Stapl
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- MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
- IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
MAKG HOMOPHOBIC CHARACTERS GAY PANRS TO A PERVASIVE MYTH
Rob McElhenney, creator and star of It's Always Sunny Philalphia, spoke about the cisn to make his character Mac openly gay on the ntroversial s. * it's always sunny gay guy *
This, however, was an earnt moment which Mac (played by seri creator Rob McElhenney) fally found the means wh which to exprs himself and affirm his inty as a newly out gay man. ' And most of the people I know that mp tend to be fairly homophobic.
So we began gog down that road: Let’s satirize that hard Christian nservative who is also tensely homophobic.
And that’s when I thought, 'Let’s jt make him gay.
IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILALPHIA DIDN'T ALWAYS PLAN TO MAKE MAC GAY
Is Mac om 'It's Always Sunny Philalphia really gay? We took a look back to figure out. * it's always sunny gay guy *
"Gags about Mac's sexualy had long been one of the show's many nng jok, but jt as the show had skewered racist and sexist viewpots before, so too were viewers ved to lgh at the characters' homophobic ments, not wh them. "The joke wasn’t that Mac was gay, obvly. "The joke was that he was the closet, and he refed to e out and doubled down on his homophobia.
We weren’t creatg a gay character for edic effect, that was there jt to be gay and to be funny bee he was gay, but a very plex, very disturbed, very fucked-up and awful character, who happens to be gay.
Granted, this won't be happeng anytime soon: Mac's "gay journey, " as were, nclus this season wh Mac g out to his father, which TV Gui hears is not gog to go well at all.